links for 2009-06-21
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relaunched website for ARTiT magazine
links for 2009-06-20
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"Asia Matters for America (AMA) provides a hub for American and Asian audiences to explore the importance and impact of Asia in the United States by State and Congressional District. AMA provides government, academia, civil society, media and business with an interactive website that graphically displays useful trends and accurate data on how Asia matters at the U.S. state and local level." Via H-ASIA
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BEIJING (AP) — Beijing's notoriously dirty air got cleaner during last summer's Olympic Games, but the weather played a larger role than the government's massive pollution control measures, a new report says.
The first major study on air pollution during the Olympics found that conditions in Beijing were far worse than at other recent Olympics, even with the government's cleanup campaign. Particulate levels often exceeded what the World Health Organization considers safe.The report was published Friday in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, and funded by the National Science Foundation in the U.S. and the National Science Foundation in China.
links for 2009-06-19
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Via Language Hat. Includes many links on Asian and American languages.
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Conference Saturday and Sunday at Qinghua.
links for 2009-06-17
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News in English from China's excellent Caijing magazine.
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Large amounts of statistical data on China, including census, provincial statistical yearbooks, etc. May require university login.
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Project hosted at Harvard to catalog online information resources for research on East Asia.
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"The case of Ms. Deng is only the most recent and prominent of several cases in which the Internet has cracked open a channel for citizens to voice mass displeasure with official conduct, demonstrating its potential as a catalyst for social change."
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Software: Interest groups around the world are using mapping tools and internet-based information sources to campaign for change
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Sustainable John guest post on deep wells that access ground water for geothermal energy use.
links for 2009-06-14
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Paper that created time-space map for transit in europe
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Map of Europe with travel time by rail rendered as distance.
